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What happened to make plague able to cause devastating epidemics, as in this depiction from 1349? (Credit: Pierart dou Tielt/Wikimedia) One of civilization's most prolific killers shadowed humans for thousands of years w...

Zero-touch provisioning eliminates the manual labor needed to connect devices to a network and allows these devices to be provisioned and configured automatically. It's especially critical for small and mid-size companie...

Efinix announced the rollout of Trion T120 FPGAs, featuring a small, high-density fabric, a hardened DDR memory controller and hardened MIPI CSI-2 and PHY interfaces. Built on SMIC's 40nm process, Trion T120 FPGAs are de...

Allegro MicroSystems announced the launch of the world's first three-phase BLDC driver IC with integrated power loss brake (PLB) features. The A89331 code-free, sinusoidal sensorless fan driver is designed to improve the...

By Kaitlyn Franz, Digilent Test & Measurement Manager When choosing an oscilloscope, it is critical to make sure that you find the perfect balance of quality and performance. Considering the massive spectrum in the price...

Part 2 of this article looked at the amazing engineering and construction of dual under-river tunnels that were constructed to connect NY's Manhattan Island to New Jersey and the rest of the mainland US and the electric ...

Part 1 of this article established the context of the problem and why it had defied solution for so long. Once electric locomotives became a viable source of motive power, the tunnel project moved ahead with astonishing ...

The development of powerful electric traction motors and locomotives was key to enabling visionaries to realize their dream of a mile-long tunnel under the Hudson River, linking New York to New Jersey and the rest of the...

Teledyne e2v, a Teledyne Technologies company and global innovator of imaging solutions, has announced its new Bora Time-of-Flight CMOS image sensor, tailored for 3D detection and distance measurement to support the late...

(Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth) Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth has been awarded a $2.6 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to partner with Qaanaaq, an Arctic hunting and fishin...

(Children's Hospital Los Angeles) Researchers at CHLA uncover mechanisms in zebrafish heart regeneration that could lead to better treatments for babies in need of heart repair.

(American Academy of Family Physicians) Conclusions about the effectiveness of blue light therapy for acne are limited. A new systematic review and meta-analysis of 14 randomized controlled trials of blue light therapy f...

(Elsevier) A new study in The American Journal of Pathology, published by Elsevier, reports that medroxyprogesterone acetate (MPA), the active ingredient in the common contraceptive injection Depo-Provera, was effective ...

(American Academy of Family Physicians) With the rate of burnout as high as 63% among family physicians, it is important to identify risk factors for physician burnout. The relationship between burnout and personal envir...

(American Academy of Family Physicians) The number of primary care visits may be declining nationally, but analysis reveals that in-person visits have become more comprehensive and follow-up care has moved online.

(Kent State University) Traumatic injuries are the third leading cause of death nationally and the first in Americans age 44 and younger. Level I trauma rooms are intended to stabilize and save the lives of patients with...

(eLife ) People exposed to a lifetime of psychosocial adversity may have an impaired ability to produce the dopamine levels needed for coping with acutely stressful situations.

(University of California - San Diego) National attention has been drawn to the plight of patients who have experienced the unintended side effects of prolonged ICU care such as memory loss and muscle weakness. Now, a re...

(Fundação de Amparo Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo) A study by Brazilian researchers suggests that cardiac overload due to the stress of driving in heavy traffic can be attenuated by listening to instrumental music.

(PLOS) In a new research study published in the open access journal PLOS Medicine, Albert Hofman and colleagues at Erasmus MC University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public H...

(Iowa State University) If you have trouble sleeping, you're not alone. New research from Iowa State University finds more Americans have trouble falling asleep and staying asleep. The difficulties were most prevalent in...

(Aalto University) Study shows correlation between mothers' self-reported pregnancy-related anxiety, and babies' blood flow to brain areas responsible for emotional responses when listening to sad speech